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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
two articles from July as this was recently being discussed by the FCC:
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Seems like a very large load of particularly smelly crap to me. Lies, all of it.
With a digital box, it is possible to feed or block any channel as desired. It would create more, not less, opportunity for new shows and material. It would foster "public access" on a tremendous scale. It is incredibly hard to get a new show onto an existing "specialty channel" (e.g., Outdoor Life). The exiting networks have too much invested in advertising and "market" identity to risk straying beyond their current offering. Newcomers with good ideas are prevented from airing what could become a popular show simply because the network is afraid to take a chance.
A couple hundred channels showing new, possibly wonderfully innovative programming could introduce programs worth watching instead of the same tired shit that we're currently being subjected to:
1. reality shows
2. team competition shows
3. sitcoms of old situations with ethnic twists
4. talk and advice shows
edit: 5. Makeover shows
Also, I think that the networks are afraid to lose the few viewers they still hold to some show that doesn't owe their existance to the network.